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blacking in

blacking in is the present participle and gerund of black in.

Meaning of black in

Verb

black in (third-person singular simple present blacks in, present participle blacking in, simple past and past participle blacked in)

  1. (intransitive, uncommon) To regain or return to consciousness or attentiveness after having blacked out.
    • Willa and Eddie barely left my side as I blacked in and blacked out over the—what? Days? Weeks? Time is unreadably stretched out on the serious postsurgical wards. It's hard to say what's a day or what's a night […]2016 February 9, Andrew Pyper, The Damned, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 77

Questions about blacking in

What is blacking in the present participle and gerund of?
Blacking in is the present participle and gerund of black in.

Words near blacking in in the dictionary

  1. blackified
  2. blackifies
  3. blackify
  4. blackifying
  5. blacking
  6. blacking in
  7. blacking out
  8. blacking up
  9. blackings
  10. blackish
  11. blackish-gray antshrike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blacking in (page history and authors); black in (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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